[Mailman-Developers] 2.1b3 gate_news problem Sparc/Linux 6.2

[Colin Neeson]

I posted this off to the users group, but nothing in response, so I thought
I would toss it here for comment.

I've got Mailman 2.0.13 in production, and currently am testing 2.1b3 on
Sparc/Linux 6.2.  I've had no problems with 2.1b3, until I try and use
news-mail (and vice versa) gateway.  I am not using this feature in 2.0.13,
so I am not sure whether it barfs there or not.  I'm using INN 2.2.2.

I'm not familiar with Python (clueless actually).  Could someone comment on
the following?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 270, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 252, in main
    clearcache()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 107, in clearcache
    conn.quit()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/nntplib.py", line 552, in quit
    resp = self.shortcmd('QUIT')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/nntplib.py", line 247, in shortcmd
    self.putcmd(line)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/nntplib.py", line 187, in putcmd
    self.putline(line)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/nntplib.py", line 182, in putline
    self.sock.sendall(line)
socket.error: (32, 'Broken pipe')

The news server is up and running.  I can post and read news items from it,
so the socket.error is perplexing.

I would be very grateful for any assistance.

Many thanks,

-Colin.